Rachel Cohen: Pandemic Creates Opening for Public Funding of Home Schooling
Rachel Cohen writes that the pandemic is encouraging many parents to consider home schooling and to pressure Congress to pay them to do it.
I disagree.
Before the pandemic, about 2 million children were home schooled, mostly by parents who were either evangelical Christians or who worried about the diverse culture of the public schools or bullying or low standards.
But parents who work don’t want to home school. Most parents prefer that their children learn from knowledgeable teachers alongside others and engage in the academic, social, and cultural activities at school.
The vast majority of parents are eager for school to resume so they can return to work.
Of course, the anti-public school lobby will take advantage of the pandemic to try to divert funding from public schools to private bank accounts.
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